[Dahut-pm] Digital Humanities

[Matt Sergeant]

Congratulations, James.

On 29-Oct-07, at 11:45 AM, James Smith wrote:

> Patience works sometimes.
>
> In August of '04, I sent this list an e-mail about putting together a
> proposal for a position here at the University:
>
>> The position I am proposing would act as a facilitator, helping
>> faculty understand the creative commons that is the bedrock of OSS
>> and how to leverage OSS for their own projects.  This position would
>> also investigate building a low-cost, high-availability, and
>> low-maintenance platform for producing applications that are parts of
>> faculty projects.
>
> Well, after three years, I'm moving to a new position that was
> created this year as a result of that seed.  The move is effective 1
> Nov.
>
> The job description is a bit long, but it boils down to managing
> faculty projects, trying to find parts of projects that can be
> released as F/OSS, engineering production/test environments, creating/
> running workshops and tutorials for faculty, attending appropriate
> conferences, and networking with other universities.  There are about
> 40 faculty interested in this.  It helps that the (U.S.) National
> Endowment for the Humanities is pushing open source now in the
> digital humanities.
>
> As a result, I'll be jumping back into the F/OSS world.  I can't
> promise a lot of Perl/mod_perl stuff (though I have some projects I
> want to do there -- including breaking out parts of the Gestinanna
> project that I had to shelve a couple years ago), but I hope to be
> much more active.  I might even make it to OSCon again.
> --
> James Smith <JGSmith at TAMU.Edu>
> Texas A&M University, College of Liberal Arts
> Digital Humanities Lead Developer (as of 1 Nov)
>
>
>
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